U.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes Money a Mutually Shared Illusion

[Taco John]

U.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion

February 16, 2010 | Issue 46•07

WASHINGTON—The U.S. economy ceased to function this week after unexpected existential remarks by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke shocked Americans into realizing that money is, in fact, just a meaningless and intangible social construct.


It's funnier when you read it on their site:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/u_s_economy_grinds_to_halt_as

[Taco John]

"I don't even know what we were thinking in the first place," said former banker Nathan Collins of Brandon, MS, as he jimmyed open a door to allow a single mother and her five children to move back into their house. "A bunch of people sign a bunch of papers, and now this family has no place to live? That's just plain ludicrous."

ROFL

[Norman Einstein]

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/20_000_tons_of_pubic_hair_trimmed

This one would hold more interest for the members here.

[The Mad Crapper]

http://thepeoplescube.com/images/Obama_Coin_ExactChange_160.gif

[Jenson71]

Stuff like this used to freak people out in antiquity.

They'd realize their coins were made with less silver and more cheap tin, and it would be a huge panic.